Sweet Fruit, Sour Land wins Not the Booker Prize 2018

15 October 2018

Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley
(published by Sandstone Press) is the winner of the 2018 Not the
Booker Prize.

The three judges decided to overrule the public vote and put
their weight behind this dark dystopian novel in the place of
public vote winner Ariel Kahn's Raising Sparks (Bluemoose Books). The
judges said that 'The stark poetry and sincerity of Ley's
novel ... made them certain in their choice. It's also notable that
this novel rewarded rereading more than others on the
list'.